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by akgerber 13y ago
That sounds like New York City.
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by akgerber 13y ago
In most coastal states, it's difficult to do greenfield development in high-income cities because of some combination of laws preserving open space (e.g. California) and because greenfields have basically been developed to the limit of sane
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by akgerber 13y ago
Much of the Bay Area (and California in general) housing policy is best summed up as the ol' Republican "Fuck you, got mine" with a mild environmental gloss, combined with an inability to imagine building anything other than auto-dependent
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by akgerber 13y ago
Of course, the Instagram vs. Kodak comparison leaves out the actual network-connected cameras built into smartphones that Instagram leverages. Untold thousands of people are employed designing smartphone chips and the phones themselves, bui
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by akgerber 13y ago
It often takes as long or longer to accomplish daily tasks in a car-oriented suburban neighborhood as in a pedestrian-oriented urban neighborhood; for example, it's about a 5 minute walk to the grocery store in my city neighborhood and abou
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by akgerber 13y ago
New York (City) is, quite simply, a very different market than California. Most people who park on the street want a car they are comfortable taking a lot of damage on (and can't charge the car), and most garages in NYC are very old, very t
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by akgerber 13y ago
All the pods appeared to be on privately owned parking lots or otherwise vacant lots. E.G.: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=food+truck+pod&hl=en&...
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by akgerber 13y ago
Your sarcasm detector is off.
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by akgerber 13y ago
Portland has "food truck pods" on the edges of downtown parking lots, as well as in parking lots throughout the city. They have an incredible diversity of cheap food, and the businesses are obviously low-overhead (often in trailers instead
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by akgerber 13y ago
On the Manhattan Bridge bike lane, my current daily bike commute, you ride within a couple feet of incredibly loud subway trains. It's definitely louder than the segment of my old daily bike commute when I rode on Interstate 5.
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by akgerber 13y ago
That sort of API is necessary for, say, an alternate text messaging app.
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by akgerber 14y ago
Food trucks don't really seem like a bubble to me-- they're more of an end-run around restrictive zoning that makes it hard to start a restaurant in a building.
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by akgerber 14y ago
Note the phrase "associated" in the excerpt: "They, too, find lower growth associated with periods when debt is over 90%" This episode emphasizes that the original study found no causality; one would expect a country with low growth to need
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by akgerber 14y ago
Exiting the US on foot at the Mexican border involves no check of any kind of documentation-- you just walk through a couple turnstiles, and a Mexican Marine may search your bag if you look suspicious. That, of course, makes it easy to be i
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by akgerber 14y ago
Or a decent house in a nice neighborhood and $14k a year indefinitely in the Midwest.
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by akgerber 14y ago
It seems to me that the money to be made on an O'Reilly book would be in speaking/consulting/job hunting as someone who "wrote the book on X".
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by akgerber 14y ago
2) Real estate prices – If you are buying a home today, it is very painful. However, due to CA's limited growth property taxes, it is quite affordable for the majority of residents who have been living here for life. That results in a clev
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by akgerber 14y ago
The only downside is per-capita carbon usage higher than nearly every other country in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...
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by akgerber 14y ago
Gold and silver have very little inherent value, only trade value (other than a few industrial applications, but they can often be replaced by copper). We don't save very much food, or surplus housing, or surplus machinery or petroleum or s
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by akgerber 14y ago
A lot of this country is "built out" under current zoning regimes which require auto-oriented detached single-family construction in most of the country, which is extremely land-intensive compared to traditional walkable urbanism. Because l
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by akgerber 14y ago
Or perhaps based on the US, where commuter rail and rapid transit everywhere provide very different levels of service.
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by akgerber 14y ago
Still no bike maps on iPhone.
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by akgerber 14y ago
The Poway School District has a very good reputation and mostly covers upper middle class exurbs with a lot of residents working tech jobs, with Qualcomm, HP, Intuit, Broadcom, Sony, and more having offices in or near the district. San Dieg
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by akgerber 14y ago
Poway is on San Diego's sprawl frontier and the region has been growing apace in recent years, so they may be planning on growth.
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by akgerber 14y ago
I see Amazon Lockers at parking garages near me while walking around in New York.
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by akgerber 14y ago
Odds of dying in a car accident: 1 in 6700. Maybe the TSA should enforce traffic laws or build commuter rail lines.
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by akgerber 14y ago
HTC mostly uses Qualcomm silicon, which I believe is often produced by TSMC.
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by akgerber 14y ago
Below that in the price spectrum, there's Zenni Optical. I bought a $20 pair of glasses from them over a year ago & they've been very good to me. They aren't quite as stylish as Warby Parker, but they are still pretty nice.
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by akgerber 14y ago
As Apple has taught us so well, details matter.
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by akgerber 14y ago
Or 100 minutes, unlimited text, and 5GB HSPA+ data with unlimited EDGE for $30, with minutes $.10 each afterward. I mostly make my long calls via Google Voice on my laptop anyway, so 100 minutes is usually plenty, and going over some months

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